Faucet.



F. C. BUSCH.

FAUCET.

APPucA'rlou FILED SEPT. 5. |911.

Patented me., 28, 1915.

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FREDERIC C. BUSCH, OF EAST CLEVELAND, DHIO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 191 5.

Application filed September 15, 1911. Serial No. 649,425.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIC C. BUSCH, citizen of the United States, residing at East Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Faucets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in faucets, and the invention consists in a faucet having a rotarily adjustable discharge portion or spout, all substantially as shown and described and particularly pointed out in the claim. Y

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation partially in section of my improved faucet in one of its preferred forms. Fig. 2 isa plan view thereof with the improved portion in horizontal section on the line of its pivot. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the spout and the front end of the faucet as shown in Fig. 1, and Figmi is a face view of the fastening disk shown in body bein section in Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of a simple form of rotatable spout for a faucet. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the faucet partially in section with a modiii'cation of the attachment showingV a cup in elevated position. Fig. 7 is a plan view of Fig. 6 with the cup beneath the faucet. Fig. 8 is a front elevation of Fi 7, and Fig. 9 a front elevation of a modi ed spout attachment.

The invention herein comprises a suitable faucet body F, which may have the particular form shown in the several views or some other form as shall be preferred, the said modified from the ordinary fau'- cet to ena le attachment to be made. Thus, in Figs. 1 to 4 the attachment consists of two parts B and C, and in a single-part as seen in Figs. 6 to 9 inclusive, but with such modification of the faucet body in both cases as adapts the same to have the attachment applied thereto. In Fig. 1 the faucet shows the said extremity as shortened compared with the faucet of usual .construction and provided with an annularl outside thread 2. The part B is provided with an outwardly projecting flange 4 at its base adapted to bear against the corresponding edge of the faucet body and to thread 2 with a gasket 5 between said parts and a ring nut N engaged over said flange and upon the threads 2 of the faucetf'and llocking the two parts together. Yet this leaves the part B free to be in the foregoing descrlption,

axially rotated so as to bring the spout C to any'desired position rotarily. The part C is pivotally supported upon the end of the part B by transverse screw 3 and adapted to rotate in the arc of a circle, as service may require. The particular manner of connecting or attaching these parts is clearly disclosed in the three several views, Figs. l, 2 and 4, Iwherein it will be seen that the part or portion B is narrowed at its delivery end and has sides provided with openings to the inside and provided with a central fluid passage which discharges through its sides into the relatively enlarged head 6 of the said part() so that the fluid can discharge laterally through the passages of the supporting part B into said head and flow out through the spout 7. The said head has an inside annular bearing portion b adapted to receive the end of part B, and a tightening disk D seats in the side of this bearing b and a gasket d inside makes this joint water tight. Disk D is open work to pass water through the same. Bolt or screw 3 engages through disk' D and draws the said parts rmly together, and packing on both sides of the flattened end of the extension B makes the joint water tight.

In the modification, Figs. 6 to 9, the body F of the faucet is extended so as to supply the length which is equivalent to the part B and the attachment C is connected directly with the end of said extension by means of a pivot screw 8 and wherein the immediate connecting end of the extension, indicated by 10, is JHattened at its sides and brought within the opposite open sides of the head of the attachment C fective by gaskets and the like as aboveindicated to prevent external leakage. In this latter case also the extension or spout C shows a special attachment of substantially cup shape indicated by 12 and adaptedto be thrown into any position with the radius of its movement, as for example, into an elevated horizontal position, Fig. 6, if preferred in that Way. This would provide what may be termed a sanitary drinking cup if it were desired to use it in this way. The said cup 12 is threaded upon the eX- tremity of the attachment and is removable at pleasure.

rllhe head 6 of the spout in both forms is wherein the connection is made ef-A divided or slotted centrally partway from f' its top corresponding to said bearing portion b to enter the iat sided member with which the spout connects, the same being Iart B in Figs. 1 to 5 and the faucet body in igs. 6 to 9 inclusive in both cases, and screw 3 serves as a clamping means in both cases.

Obviously the foregoing are mere illustrations of the vinvention and'not exhaustive o'r exclusive, and different Ways of doing the same thing readily suggest themselves and are understood to be within the scope of the claim.

It will be noticed in both Figs. 2 and 4 that clamping bolt 3 engages only one side of the head 6 while its inner end engages disk D and draws it tight against the flat side of B, which also seals the joint water tight by means of gasket d. The water flows laterally through the said parts to both sides of the head 6. In Fig. 9, flattened end 13 is shown at one side ofthe axial center of the faucet and spout part C2 has a single offset head "14, a'

screw 8 rotatably connecting the parts together.

What I claim is: In faucets, a supporting body,- a hollow coupling member provided with a ange about its inner end coupled on said body and a flatsided extension at its front rounded vertically on its extremity and having an inward projection at the middle of said extension provided with a-bolt hole transversely through vthe same, in combination with a spout having a head with a recess lfitting on the said extension having an inslde annular bearing: fitting said extension and provided with waterspaces at each side open to the hollow of said coupling, a clamping bolt through` one side of said spout and said projection and a. disk shaped nut for said bolt bearing a ainst said projection and provided with a uid passageA through the same.

In'testimony whereofI aix my signature in presence oftwo witnesses.

FREDERIC C. BUSCH. Witnesses E. M; FIsImR, F. C.- MUssUN. 

